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Abnormality, 148 Che&terford, 100 Air-raid in , 1240 Chilterns, the, 409, 58 Amber beads, 288 Chinese, philosophy, 26; &I Anglia, East, 85, 87, 166 artists, 401 Anglo-Indian fears, 740 , 21, 400, 171, 1740, 206 Antwerp, 53, 191 Christmas, 62, 210; and war, 640 Aretino, 188 Citta Vecchia, 223 Art, nations supreme in, 407; the Civilisation, very ancient, 1; war in, 218 its undue nervous reactions, Artichoke, the, 86 8; and the birth-rate, 19; Artist, the, 1405 and Man, 66; of classic Athenaeus, 2 times destroyed by mosquito, Athens, 2240 d seq. 66 / Augustine, St., 408, M Coleridge, 220 - Australia, 98, 111 Conscription, 69, 105 Cornwall, 89, 228 Bacon, Lord, 202 Cremation, the rites of, 101 Bacon, Roger, 80 Crete, ancient, 2, 1409 Bagehot,79 Croce, B., 1405 Baireuth,6 Barres, Maurice, 51 Dampier, 80 Baudelaire, 85 .. Danse Macabre," 60 Beethoven, 182, 1840, 186, 168 Dario, Ruben, 182 Begbie, Harold, 191 Davanzati, Palazzo, 11 Binet-Sangll!, 78 Death,52,88,108,116,118,188, Birth-rate and civilisation, 19 201, 212, 225 . Blake, William, 81 as a disease, 181 Boer War, 407 Dentistry, primitive, 1 Bologna, 140; its art, 15; its Derby, the Victory, 191 cathedral, 16 Deubel, Ikon, " Buckinghamshire, 409 Dream, 60, 172 Burial service, 58, 101 Dunmow, Little, 1540; Great, 157 Byzantine architecture, 19, I', Dunstan, 80 280 Dutch, architecture, 34; paint­ ing,401 Chalfont St. Giles, 57 Chaliapin, 28, 208 Ecclesiastes, 1401 Channel Tunnel scheme, 179 Ecuador, prehistoric, 1 246 246 IMPRESSIONS AND COMMENTS

Egyptiana 81 artiste, '1 ln~tlonaillOlicy, lOT Embankment, beauty of, 128 lron-work at tumtead, 81 Emerald, the virtue of the, 106 Illamic, art, 18, '1; mynicilm. Emerson, 202 188 English, character of, " 12; in Italy, In, 11 II uq. poetry, '1; moral consciolll­ ness of, 46; laziness of, 68; voluntaryism, 105; idealism, Japan_, the, '1 192 JeIUI,4.0.T2. IT' Erechtheion, 286 Joyce. JameI, 197 Eternity, 169 Kant, 121 Koreana, '1 F&lamp, 88 Feminme gait, 8T Fitzwalter monument, 155 LancianJ, 4.T Florence,. n, 16 Lao-Tze, 28 . Folkestone Church, 2M Lazin_ of the Englilh. 88 French, 81 artists, '1; 81 re­ Liberty, Eng1ilh love of, • actionaries, 180 llige, 68 L1eh Tzu, 28 Living. the end of, 18. Gait, feminine, 8T Locke, '5, '79 Galla Placidia, Mausoleum of, UI Lcindon, 88, as Genius~--the nature of, 151 Loria, 8 Germans, in music, 4.1: laborl· Louvaln,68 ous character of, TO Loy91a, 25 , English moralists on, LyoDl, Lord, , 4.6 Lyeka, Elizabeth, 16 Glastonbury, '1'6 Goat, the, 228 Malinee, as Goncourt, 196 Malta, 220, 222 Gothic, Italian, 16 ; in Somenet. T6, TT - Man, overreaches himeelf, "J' ~ monument&, 11; an Gotha ancient and modem, 4.8 eivilisation, a6; 81 a marion­ Gounod,60 ette, 61; and Nature, 66, 82, Gourmont, Remy de, 2, 22 ...., 85. 119, 1ST Greece, in, 22' d uq. Marcus Aureliue, 106 Grief,l1' Marionettes and Man, 81 Grieg, 188 Markets, 229 Mase,the, 82,'2 Hampden, John, 110 Maxim, Sir Hiram. lot Hartmann von d~ Aue, 42 Merton Church. " Herodotus, 89 Militariun, 4.8 Hinton, J., 152 Milton, aI, IT Hobbes, '1'9 Mimoea, • !pray of, H Homo Omnivoru. 8 Modest,. 181 Morality and immorality, 20 Moslem teacher. a, 138 Imagination, man'. lack of, ITS Mosquito, the, 66 Immorality and morality, 20 Mouse, the metaphyllicel. 118 Immortality, the belief in, 158, MOUIIOrgsky,28 218 Muralt, 68 Indiana in France. " M)'Bticiem, 28 INDEX 247

Nature, as fiction, 28; and Man, Rousseau, 117 116, 82, 84., 85, 119, 187; and Russia, the genius of, 24., 208 , 68; aymboliaed by mosquito, 67 Saffron Walden, 98, 182 Neolithic age in Malta, 221 Saintsbury, 201 Salle, Antoine de Ia, 27 Obscenity, the place of, 184 Salvation Army, 24. Ortvay, 8 Salvini, 209 Santon Downham, 167 PaiD,52 Saville, Professor, 1 Palencia, 15 Scales, musical,·216 Papini,200 Schubert, 165, 170 Parn/al,6 Sea-gulls, 89 Parsons, Father, 80 Shenstone, 70 Parthenon, 285 Somerset, 76; genius ot, 79 Patras, 289 Song 01 Songs, l4.2 Patriotism, 65, 178, 177 Southey, 61 Peace, the, 198 Spinoza,22 Pear, the, 114. Spring, the coming of, 68, 187, Penn, William, 51 182 Pergaud, Louis, 4.5 Stowmarket, 58 Peterborough Cathedral, 77 Stratford-on-Avon,57 , 181 Strike-leaders, deportation of, 5 Poppies, 81 Suicide, 88 Posidonius, 92 Summer time, 97 Post-Impressionism, 71 Sunrise, 93 Poussin, Nicholas, 70 Swift, 199, 208 Prayer, 153 Symons,Artbur,19 Pre-history, I, 14.8, 158 Progress, 2, l4.9 Tchaikovsky, 185 Prose sentences, 200 Teeth, I, 8 Proust, 196 Temple, Sir W., 201 Puerility, 187 Testament, the Old, 14.1 Punishment, the idea of, 4.2 Thoreau, 202, 214. Purity and impurity, 96 Thucydides,91 Trieste, 24.1 Pythias, 91. Truth,l40 Tunstead Church, 80 Quakers, Milton and the, 58 Quercia, Jacopo della, 17 Venice, 24.2 Vinci, Leonardo da, 14.5 Rain,87 Violoncellist, a, 188 Raleigh, Sir W., 200 Voltaire,82 Ravenna, 12, 18, 15 Reading, 9 Wagner, 6 Refreshment House Association, War, coming ot the Great, "", 29 • 4.7; as man's most flagrant R~gnier, H. de, 87 crime, 58, M; how to end, 65 ; -­ Religion, significance of, 62, 175 madness of, 71; purifying Revelation of St. John, 88 virtues of, 104; making it Rbeims, 51, 58, 115 impossible, 110; and litera­ Richardson, Dorothy, 198 ture, 112; what it teaches, Riston, 209 14.7; and the Peace, 198; and Ronsard,57 Christianity, 206 ; in art, 218 24.8 IMPRESSIONS AND COMMENTS

Wellington. " Wrell, Sir C., 80 Well., 76; cathedral, '" , Wringtoll, 71 Westminster Cathedral, 6f, 71 .\Vriten' function. the, 101 Whitman'. ancestry, 100 Woods, Dr. F., 89 Yan, Chu, 18,1' World 81 8pectacle, the, 88 Yarmouth, 88 Wontcad,80 . York Cathedral, .,.,

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